Comparing Orwell's Brave New World 'And 1984'

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Public service is defined as a service concentrated on the public interest or by governmental employment. In the novels Brave New World and 1984, the end all be all goal was to manipulate and recreate to achieve ultimate perfection. I would have to agree with the term because in both novels most of the people conformed to the propaganda the government was putting out there. Two characters that were manipulated by their governments were Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the ruling Party in Oceania who alters historical documents to keep stability in the utopian society. John the savage, who came from a different society and was alienated in the utopian society because of his savage roots and teachings. In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, the explorations of John and Winston result in an unimaginable dystopia through society's use of science, politics, and technology. …show more content…

Each novel’s main ideas are present today, so neither author is more correct than the other. Both of their ideas in the novels closely related to the idea of public service and their reliability on their government to conform to a world of irrelevance.
In Comparison to Huxley, Orwell’s 1984 predicted that what we hate will eventually be the dominant force in our destruction. Orwell's main goal was to warn of the danger totalitarianism poses to society. He demonstrates the degree of power and control a totalitarian government can acquire and maintain. In both societies, any notion of personal rights and freedoms and individual thought are pulverized under the all-powerful hand of the government. Public service was not an option to the people because they had no rights from the time they were born and were preconditioned to adhere to the governments

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